Care for Our Producers

Astral donated more than 64 t of animal feed to farmers in Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape provinces, suffering damages from severe weather conditions associated with drought and fires.

Astral Cares, in partnership with Teffo Industries, established a project to support emerging farmers in Hammanskraal, Gauteng. This initiative launched a distribution hub, provides training and mentoring for local entrepreneurs and community members in critical areas such as business start-up skills, entrepreneurship, marketing skills and the technical skills and benefits derived from quality animal feed formulations and nutrition.

Meadow Feeds Randfontein supports the distribution centre and as a result, more than 230 emerging farmers in the community are now realising increased efficiencies in animal production thanks to the value provided by Meadow Feeds products and expertise.

Astral Cares continued to support the valuable training of new and emerging farmers within the poultry and animal feed industries. A number of training programmes were sponsored during 2024 at the KwaZulu-Natal Poultry Institute, the Buhle Farmers Academy and the Harry Gwala Agri NPC.